Astronomy
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of ALL living things?
-breathing
-reproducing
-adapting
Breathing
What is the high point of the wave called? What is the low point of the wave called? (BOTH are necessary to get these points!)
Crest, trough
How many acres were in your _________ acre wood project?
400!
Where did Mrs. Munsey grow up?
Newport RI
Two random objects exist in space. What's one thing could be done to make their gravitational pull between each other get STRONGER?
make one more massive or move them closer together
What did Robert Hooke look at under the microscope?
Cork cells
What part of the wave is responsible for the LOUDNESS (volume) of sound?
amplitude
What is a relationship between organisms where BOTH organisms benefit from each other?
Mutualism
What was the disease we learned about in the beginning of the year AND what type of disease is it? (BOTH needed to get full points)
Smallpox, virus
List THREE characteristics of the INNER planets
smaller, rockier, more dense, less surface gravity, move faster around the sun
What is the powerhouse of the cell? (Converts food energy into usable energy)
Mitochondria
The PITCH of a sound depends on the wave's...
frequency (wavelength is also an acceptable answer)
When your grandparents were growing up there were almost no turkeys in NH. Please briefly explain what happened since then?
Reintroduced in the 70s and then grew from there.
What is the goal of NASA's Kepler mission?
to find earth like planets
Which type of eclipse is visible to more people AND WHY???
lunar because it's the moon going through the earth's shadow which is much larger than the small moon's shadow on the earth. Everyone (almost) having night can see it
Name something on the SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE
fever, white blood cells
What does sound travel the fastest through and WHY
solids because the particles are closer together. They can "pass along" the vibration much faster than liquids/gasses because particles are farther spread out
How much energy passes from one level to the next in an ecosystem AND what happens to the rest? BOTH questions are needed here
10%, rest is lost as heat, used for growth, etc.
What does it mean to be EUKARYOTIC?
has DNA inside a nucleus
Is there a dark side of the moon? Why or why not?
NO! There is a "far" side that we never see but it is sometimes dark (during our full moon) and sometimes lit (during our new moon) and otherwise somewhere in between
Little Beasties were either animals, or this type of organism
Protist
When a wave breaks up and travels along many paths it is...
diffused
When an organism dies, what happens to the MATTER that the organism was made of?
decomposers "recycle" it back into the ecosystem. The actual matter stays in the ecosystem and goes into the soil
What was "Newton's Canon" experiment?
it was his theory that if you shot a cannon off fast enough from the top of a mountain, it would orbit the earth